The US regulator has launched a new national initiative to help Medicaid programs fund gene therapies for sickle cell disease ...

So far in 2025, the Trump administration has cut more than $1 billion in NIH grants. That includes a study on sickle cell ...

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has selected 35 participants for its new, voluntary Cell and Gene ...

The Executive Director of the Ghana Foundation for Sickle Gene Action, Victoria Awo Twumasi, has appealed to President John Dramani Mahama to include full coverage of sickle cell disease (SCD) treatme ...

Panellists at a day’s conference to mark this year’s world sickle cell day have called for a fixed protocol for the treatment of sickle cell emergencies ...

Sickle cell disease affects about 100,000 people in the U.S., and 90% of patients are Black, according to NIH.

September 2025 edition of African Sickle Cell News & World Report, a leading international magazine on sickle cell advocacy, science, and community issues, is now out — and available for absolutely ...

Families of those who have sickle cell disease in the Philadelphia area are pushing for more research and a cure.

Gabriella Ngang, of Farmington Hills, is one of three in Michigan to take part in a clinical trial of a new sickle cell ...

About 15,000 people in England live with the inherited condition, which affects people mainly of Black African and Black Caribbean heritage. Red blood cells are produced in a sickle shape and are ...

Sickle cell disease affects an estimated 100,000 people in the U.S. and the vast majority of them are Black. Federal and charitable dollars dedicated to sickle cell pale in comparison to other ...

SHREVEPORT, La. - An estimated 100,000 people in the United States have sickle cell disease, according to the Sickle Cell ...